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Kelly Marie Blanchat; Tess Colwell; Jennifer Snow – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Three Yale University librarians from different departments collaborated on a Workshop Incentive Program to increase library workshop attendance, streamline outreach, and strengthen partnerships. While badging and gamification initiatives are widely used in academic libraries for outreach purposes, there are few examples of incentive programs for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Incentives, Library Instruction, Workshops
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Chisholm, Alexandria; Hartman-Caverly, Sarah – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Personal technology use can significantly impact wellness. The transition to widespread remote learning, working, and socializing during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated society's reliance on technology. This article presents a case study of how the authors applied their privacy scholarship to offer a responsive learning experience for students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Wellness, Influence of Technology
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Xie, Jingzhen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Academic libraries in Macao, China, began to use the term "information literacy" and to offer information literacy programs approximately three years ago. At the University of Macau, information literacy is considered important to help the honors students become junior researchers. Using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries
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McClellan, Samantha; Detmering, Robert; Martinez, George; Johnson, Anna Marie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Graduate students across disciplines feel pressure to publish their scholarship, but they are often unsure how to go about it, partly due to a lack of explicit training in this area. This article discusses the collaborative development of a semester-long Publishing Academy, designed to promote knowledge of scholarly publishing and increase the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Scholarship, Writing for Publication, Library Role
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Fleming-May, Rachel A.; Mays, Regina; Radom, Rachel – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Most academic library instruction is limited to one class period, despite empirical evidence that this approach is likely less effective than more sustained instruction. To determine if additional sessions would boost student learning and reduce library anxiety, the authors collaborated with representatives from a program for at-risk…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, At Risk Students, Undergraduate Students
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Lange, Jessica; Lannon, Amber; McKinnon, Dawn – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This article explores the closing of the Howard Ross Library of Management at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. We hypothesized that closing a branch library would result in a decline in the use of library services. We measured library service using circulation statistics, library instruction workshop statistics, and data from the online survey…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Research, Library Role, Library Networks
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Denda, Kayo – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
This case study presents a cocurricular initiative at the Margery Somers Foster Center at Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick, NJ. The initiative resulted in an interview workshop for the course Knowledge and Power, a "mission course" of the Douglass Residential College. This discussion-based workshop uses visual and multimedia…
Descriptors: Interviews, Skill Development, Visual Literacy, Assignments